A glimpse of Auckland’s future *Metro* style operating pattern. 💚the East West Line ❤️the South and City Line

For anyone interested in buying a copy of The Shoup Doctrine, you can use the following link. Also, reply below or message me to get a code for 25% off www.routledge.com/The-Shoup-Do...

Weather update for Auckland. The theme for us is still preparation not panic. Please keep an eye on @AucklandCDEM and @MetService socials and websites. Thoughts to our neighbours up north in the coromandel as well. My update in screenshots and link www.facebook.com/share/18f9Gh...

The Ambridge Rose Retirement Village on Edgewater Drive, Pakuranga, is seeking resource consent to construct two apartment buildings with 51 independent living units.

Mercury Lane upgrade nearing completion ahead of the City Rail Link opening 🌳🛴🚲🚶

The Canada Street Cycleway is open

Great North Road nearing completion 🚲 🌳 🚌

This webinar is 2 years old now, but I’ll bet it’s full of good information. I look forward to watching it! Thanks to @urbanistfromwhk.bsky.social for sharing the link.

New cycleway on Vincent 🔥 🔥🔥

Settlement on the Downtown Carpark between Precinct Properties and Auckland Council is set for December 18 www.audo.co.nz/news/downtow...

Love & Co plan $100m Henderson development beside Auckland Film Studios. It would include 228 homes businessdesk.co.nz/article/prop...

Coming together!

Forgot to post this stunning morning shot from earlier. 😍

Canada Street Cycleway construction underway

Good morning from the bike lane

“The North Shore will never elect someone like you” - and other, far harsher comments stick in the back of my mind from the first time I ran. That time, I won by 128 votes. So, I apologise for one last celebratory post, but my colleague, Cr Shane Henderson, crunched the final numbers and…

Very exciting - accidentally wore the perfect colour shirt for this too

Made the pilgrimage to the giant liquorice allsort station

Walkable, mixed-use and tree lined neighbourhoods - for the win

Precinct has announced the commencement of a 638-bed purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) development at 256 Queen Street, Auckland It will be completed for the 2029 academic year with Icon constructing the tower.

Thanks to the North Shore for having me back as your councillor. I’m proud to be the highest polling councillor on the Shore again and with the highest vote tally of any councillor in Auckland this time around. Please read my long post here: www.facebook.com/share/176XZv...

Three new awesome playgrounds going in at the Carrington/Unitec development

Vere Crescent, Hamilton. A development of 10 townhouses by Gribbons Group, featuring 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, with a mix of garages and off-street parking.

How are things going with the development on the former UNITEC site along Carrington Rd? Find out, in this guest post by @urbanistfromwhk.bsky.social with heaps of nice photos of the new housing and emerging transport links – plus, a surprise playground! 🤸‍♂️ www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2025/10/09/p...

Construction has started at the University of Auckland on Building 230 (B230) that will provide academic offices, contemporary teaching spaces, student amenities, and a purpose-built performing arts facility. More here: www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

Melburnians! I am in your wonderful city next week and the good folk at @yimby.melbourne have kindly arranged drinks. Next Thursday evening at the Queensberry Hotel from 5.30-8pm If you want to chat about cities, housing and transport, do come along! events.humanitix.com/yimby-melbou...

Check out Pīrangi, a new 88 home development under construction in Point England as part of the Tāmaki Regeneration programme. It is a mix of apartments and terraced houses, ranging from 2 to 5 bedrooms, which will be social & shared ownership housing. tamakiregeneration.co.nz/regen/about/...

I love that Auckland FC have many initiatives underway to embrace and build on the identity of the city, beyond simply being a football club. A club bar in Tyler Street, a coffee shop in College Hill and now a separate fashion brand AKA

ICYMI: my latest post is on progress at the Carrington Housing Development. The largest single housing development currently underway in Auckland. Link below

A friend in Berlin just sent me this. Lovely buildings + policies that support the greening of frontages and streets 🏡

Cool moquette and wireless phone charging? The WX1 rocks

Beresford Square partially open!

Tihi, an under construction development from Jalcon Homes in Ōwairaka (Mt Albert). Nice consideration of layout and creation of a communal greenspace at the centre, partly enabled by amalgamation of several sites as part of the wider Kāinga Ora regeneration neighbourhood

Tihi, an under construction development from Jalcon Homes in Ōwairaka (Mt Albert). Nice consideration of layout and creation of a communal greenspace at the centre, partly enabled by amalgamation of several sites as part of the wider Kāinga Ora regeneration neighbourhood

Wrote an update about the Carrington housing development open.substack.com/pub/betterth...

Wrote an update about the Carrington housing development open.substack.com/pub/betterth...

Waka Moana being installed on Daldy Street in Wynyard Quarter. www.audo.co.nz/news/waka-mo...

Waka Moana being installed on Daldy Street in Wynyard Quarter. www.audo.co.nz/news/waka-mo...

There is a sick new playground in Eastview Reserve, Glen Innes that includes amongst many cool features, a tug of war set up!

#CRLNews: City Rail Link will be undertaking timetable testing between 18-19 October. No trains will operate between Kingsland and Waitematā and Newmarket to Waitematā until after midday.

Initial enabling works are well underway for Te Ara Tukutuku. Auckland’s new waterfront park

Ockham Residential’s second apartment building at Carrington/Maungārongo, previously only identified as Building 4, will be called Whetū and operated as Build to Rent for the foreseeable future. This includes 27 studios, 2 one-bedrooms, 18 two-bed and 18 three-bed apartments.

Ockham Residential’s second apartment building at Carrington/Maungārongo, previously only identified as Building 4, will be called Whetū and operated as Build to Rent for the foreseeable future. This includes 27 studios, 2 one-bedrooms, 18 two-bed and 18 three-bed apartments.

#RailNews: Aotearoa is investing $802 million in much needed new hybrid trains for the Lower North Island with a contract awarded to Alstom. Just what does this mean in practice? Via Adventures in Transitland by @darrendavis.bsky.social: adventuresintransitland.substack.com/p/all-about-...

Site clearance well underway at Simplicity Living’s Morningside development.

Today, August 28, marks the release of The Shoup Doctrine, a book celebrating the legacy of legendary urban planning professor and economist Donald Shoup, who passed away earlier this year. 🧵

RIP to a great one.

Today, August 28, marks the release of The Shoup Doctrine, a book celebrating the legacy of legendary urban planning professor and economist Donald Shoup, who passed away earlier this year. 🧵

Now into construction! The Kingsview Apartments on Mt Eden Road. 11 homes across four storeys along with retail space on the Mt Eden Road frontage

Cannot be bothered turning this into a thread but TLDR, enable homes where people want and the market will scale to deliver Read in full here: www.linkedin.com/posts/malcol...